US Plant Patent PP4934
Bluebird
African Violet named Bluebird
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 9, 2001. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4934
- Filed
- April 9, 1981
- Granted
- November 9, 1982
- Expires
- April 9, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and distinct African Violet cultivar distinguished by its vigorous growth and profusion of blooms of a dark violet color borne on sturdy, erect peduncles, as in a bouquet above the medium green foliage of the plant. The flower is zygomorphic with three larger and two smaller petals which have ruffled edges and excellent keeping quality.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct African Violet cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of flowers of a dark violet color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4934 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.